Hair puff and means for supporting the same.



' M. CLOSE. HAIR PUFF AND MEANS FOR SUPPORTING THE SAME. APPLICATION FILED OUT. 2, 1909.

968,514. Patented Aug. 23, 1910.

5 mm Mb? UNITE MARTHA CLOSE, OF NEW YORK, N. "Y.

HAIR PUFF AND MEANS FOR SUPPORTING THE SAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 2, 1909. Serial No. 520,645.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARTHA OLosE, a citizen of the Dominion of Canada, and a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, whose post-office address is 59 Test Thirty-seventh street, in the said city, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair Puffs and Means for Supporting the Same, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has for its object to provide a hair puff which may be readily inserted in the hair, and in which the puflf is constantly maintained, and means for maintaining the puff which may be readily attached to or detached from the hair pufi and which while in use will keep the puff distended. I attain these objects by the construction of the article and by the combination of the parts herein described and further pointed out in the claims.

In the drawing forming part of this specification: Figure 1 is a rear view of a hair puff constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the puff-distender detached from the puif. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the same; and Fig. 5 is a plan view thereof.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

In the drawing forming part of thisspecification, 1 indicates a hair puff comprising long strands of hair or like material curled upon itself to form a puff, the free end 2 of which lies inside, the strands being gathered together at the opposite end 3, and secured to any suitable form of device to enable the pufi to be inserted into the hair, such as the pin l.

To secure the strands of hair together in a pufi'ed condition, and to maintain the puff in a distended form, as shown herein, I employ a device comprising two substantially parallel bars one of which is detachably secured, and arms extending therefrom to hold the pufi in its distended condition. The preferred form of such a device is shown in Figs. 3, A and 5 inclusive,

which is preferably made of thin wire, andmay be made of one piece of wire as shown or otherwlse o1ned.' It comprlses two longitudinal bars 5 and 6, connected at one end by the cross bar 7 the bar 5 at the opposite end having another bar 8 secured to it, which at its outer end is provided with a hook or catch 9 adapted to be engaged by the free end of the bar 6. From the bar 5 extends two yoke-shaped bars 10 which lie at anangle and are laid one over the other. Instead of using two bars 10, one bar or more than two bars may be employed.

The distender is used in the following manner: The strands of hair are curled as shown in Fig. 1 and with the bar 6 open the distender is passed into the puif so that the two bars 5 and 6 embrace the body and the free end 2 of the puff as shown in Fig. 2, when the bar 6 may be locked to the hook 9, thereby firmly securing the strands of hair together while the bars 10 keep the puff properly distended. The distender may be readily detached from the pufi by disengaging the bar 6 from the hook 9.

Having described my invention I claim:

1. As an article of manufacture, a hair pufi' having strands of material curled upon themselves and means detachably securing said strands together and holding the free ends of the strands to the body thereof, and means to distend the strands into a puff.

2. As an article of the class described comprising a hair puff having strands of hair curled upon themselves to form a pufi, the free end thereof being within the puff, the other ends of the strands being gathered together, a pin secured to said gathered end and means within the puff to maintain the same in distended form.

3. As an article of manufacture, a hair pufi? having a strand of material curled upon itself, means detachably securing the free ends of said material to the body thereof, and means within the pufi for distending the strand and embodying yoke shaped bars, and means holding the other ends of said material, for insertion into the hair.

Signed at the city, county and State of New York, this 30th day of September, 1909.

MARTHA CLOSE.

Witnesses:

HrLDUR E. PETERSON, LOUISE CLARKE.

Patented Aug. 23, 1910.. 

